Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work is a four letter word!

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry